Re: [PATCH] tg3: add amd8131 to "write reorder" chipsets

2 messages, 2 authors, 2006-07-07 · open the first message on its own page

Re: [PATCH] tg3: add amd8131 to "write reorder" chipsets

From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
Date: 2006-07-07 19:51:59

John W. Linville wrote:
Add the AMD 8131 bridge to the list of chipsets that reorder writes.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <redacted>
Hi John,

The latest tg3 driver in 2.6.18 has a recovery mechanism to detect
and recover from this kind of reordering problem.  I suppose we can
add this chipset now if we're reasonably sure that it is reordering
MMIO.  But it will be nice to actually see the recovery mechanism in
action catching this chipset.

Re: [PATCH] tg3: add amd8131 to "write reorder" chipsets

From: John W. Linville <hidden>
Date: 2006-07-07 20:17:14

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:51:35PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
John W. Linville wrote:
quoted
Add the AMD 8131 bridge to the list of chipsets that reorder writes.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <redacted>
Hi John,

The latest tg3 driver in 2.6.18 has a recovery mechanism to detect
and recover from this kind of reordering problem.  I suppose we can
add this chipset now if we're reasonably sure that it is reordering
MMIO.  But it will be nice to actually see the recovery mechanism in
action catching this chipset.
Obviously it is between you and Dave to decide what is best.  We are
carrying this patch in RHEL4 at the moment, so I didn't want to hold
it back from upstream.  If you think you have a better solution then
"it's on you"... :-)

John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
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